Fake-Out Make-Out: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Danny:''' ''I call that a [[Trope Namers|fake-out make-out]].''<br />

 

Two characters, who either appear to be attracted to each other but in denial, or who just hate each other's guts, find themselves cornered during an emergency. They're about to be caught sneaking into the [[Big Bad]]'s fortress, looking at confidential files, or fleeing the scene of the battle. The quickest solution? Kiss -- passionately.

 

== Anime & Manga ==

** In that exact same episode/chapter of the light novel, there's a really steamy, passionate scene where Princess Henrieta [[Black Comedy Rape|practically rapes Saito]] to avoid arrest by government officials looking for her.

** Also on the subject of Agnes, she ''is'' rather androgynous/masculine in appearance <ref> As long as she's wearing something loose enough to hide her figure, which is definitely ''NOT'' masculine</ref> , so her and Louise kissing wouldn't necessarily look like a lesbian makeout session to unknowing observers.

** Then there's another moment where the Queen and Saito do this, only using something more... racy.

* In a chapter of ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Ai Haibara talks one of her classmates into faking intimate contact so she could figure out whether she was being tailed by the Organization, only to scare him with the intense expression on her face.

** Takagi and Satou have also pretended to date on a few occasions to tail a suspect (Takagi couldn't enjoy their time together at all because Satou is pretty damn scary when in Work Mode).

 

== Fanfic ==

 

 

== Films -- Live Action ==

** Given his large, hairy hands... That would be [[Ho Yay]] [[Screw Yourself|with himself]]!!

* Played straight in ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]''. Well, except that both characters are male, and it doesn't really lead anywhere...

* Similarly used in ''[[Bon Voyage]]'', as the characters who start kissing have just escaped into a dark movie theater.

* In ''[[Ronin]]'', [[Robert De Niro]] and [[Natascha McElhone]]'s characters are sitting in a car at night, scoping a target. When a car passes them, he pulls the fake-out. After they pull apart, she silently straddles him for a little real making-out.

* ''[[Rock and Roll High School]]'' features a solo [[Fake-Out Make-Out]] in which one of the protagonists turns towards a corner, wraps his arms around himself and mimics the sounds of a couple making out, successfully fooling his pursuers.

* ''[[Notorious]]'' Cary Grant: "Wait a minute, I'm gonna kiss you."

* ''[[Top Secret]]'', a farcical [[Affectionate Parody]] of action movies set in [[World War II]], takes it in a bit of a different direction: when a patrol of soldiers looking for them happens by, the young protagonists hide in each others' faces in a park rather crowded with other couples making out.

* ''[[The New Centurions]]'' (1972). The police officer protagonist sees a robbery taking place inside a store, calls for backup, draws his gun and ducks behind a car for cover, then realises there's a couple snuggling each other in the front seat. He rushes over to warn them, only to get shot in the chest with a sawn-off by the couple, who are driving the getaway car.

{{quote| '''Ariadne:''' They're still looking at us.<br />

'''Arthur:''' [[Crowning Moment of Funny|...it was worth a shot.]] }}

* In ''[[Charlotte Gray]]'', which takes place in Nazi-occupied France, the eponymous heroine and a member of the French resistance are being held in a house by Nazis, and manage to distract the guard who's supposed to be watching them by making out, then jump him and run for it when he comes over to separate them.

** Earlier, the resistance member is yelling angrily at Nazi tanks driving down the street, and Charlotte kisses him to shut him up and prevent him from being arrested or killed on the spot.

 

== Literature ==

* Used repeatedly in the [[Hardy Boys]] Casefiles series.

* In ''[[Belisarius Series|An Oblique Approach]]'' by [[David Drake]] & [[Eric Flint]], Prince Eon of Axum hides the fugitive Princess Shakuntala from a search of his quarters... by throwing her on the bed, jumping on top of her, and then pulling the blankets up over them both while making some obvious physical movements and sounds. The villain's soldiers, utterly embarrassed at having caught their master's royal houseguest in the middle of something, give his rooms the hastiest and most perfunctory search ever and then flee in disorder.

* Dirk does this to Tia in one of the Second Sons trilogy books.

* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s novel ''Pebble in the Sky'', one of the protagonists has a secret meeting with a girl in a car. She says that if someone is coming, they should do this. Then she lies that someone is coming.

* Happens in ''Sweet-Talking TJ'' by Karen [[Mc Combie]], between the titular character of the book and Stella to trick the police. It might have worked, but then they might have just not been seen.

* It doesn't go all the way, but in ''[[Dragon Jousters|Alta]]'' by [[Mercedes Lackey]], Kiron needs to hide Aket-ten from the Magi. He pulls her into a shrine to the goddess of lovers, throws his cloak over her, pushes her to her knees in front of the statue, and kneels himself. The Magus in charge of the squad looks in, "sees" a pair of lovers praying, and leaves without Aket-ten.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* In ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' when {{spoiler|Howard and Vince are on the roof together the night of Howards birthday party.}}

** Happens again in the Season 9 premiere. Lois speaks with John Corben, who she believes is a detective at the time. When an actual cop comes, he evokes this trope without her consent. She takes it [[Sarcasm Mode|rather well]]...

** And brutally subverted in "Passions" when Angelus is stalking Buffy; she and her friends exit the Bronze without taking notice of a couple necking. Once they're past the woman falls to the ground to reveal it was Angelus feeding on her.

** In the Season 2 finale Buffy runs into Xander at the hospital. As she's wanted by the police Xander quickly pulls her into a hug when two cops pass them in the corridor. On letting go Buffy jokes that Xander did that partially to cop a feel; Xander's lack of response to this tells Buffy that something bad has happened to Willow.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' did a time-delayed version in the new series. The Doctor kisses Martha before running away, so that some of his non-human DNA will register on her, and the aliens hunting for it will be held up double-checking that Martha is human, buying him some time.

** In series six, the Doctor doesn't want Craig to find out that they've been teleported into space, so he immediately wraps himself around Craig and tries to kiss him to distract him. Craig dodges.

* Apparently superfluous usage from ''[[Bionic Woman]]'' episode "The List": Jaime and her partner, sneaking down a restricted corridor, see that a security guard ''has already spotted them'', but they do the Fakeout Makeout anyway as he hurries over to try to get them to leave, then they knock him out. Then snog again.

** On another occasion Jaime sees a couple kissing outside her apartment, but her bionic ear picks up their conversation revealing they're actually a surveillance team.

* Played with on ''[[In Plain Sight]]'': Mary just wants to smear lipstick on Marshall's face to make them look less suspicious when they confront the diamond smugglers, but he mistakes her intentions and tries to kiss her. When she tells him off, he unapologetically responds, "I'm a guy. It's what we do."

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in a first-season episode of ''[[Lois and Clark]]''. After getting caught snooping in a closet, Clark hands Lois over as a reporter in order to preserve his own cover. Later, she tells him they could have done [[Fake-Out Make-Out|this]] instead.

** Also done in another episode of the same, where Lois and Clark are pretending to be a newlywed couple in order to investigate from a hotel typically reserved for honeymooners. When Clark's super-hearing picks up on the maid, he immediately hides the telescope they've been using, and starts kissing Lois. The maid takes one look at this as she walks in, and promptly walks right back out.

** There was another variation in this show. Before she was thrown out of a plane, Lois asked to kiss Clark goodbye. She really wanted to get close enough to whisper, "I'll take the one on the left".

*** In another episode, Max does this with a female courier when someone walks past their park bench rendezvous. Then he claims they're coming back and goes in for another round.

* In "Chuck Versus the Break-Up?" in ''[[Chuck]]'', we learn that Bryce and Sarah always used the "happy couple making out" cover up during missions together. And pretended they didn't enjoy it.

** Replace "always" with "often," and that could go for Sarah and Chuck, too. Chuck is usually taken completely off guard, but generally doesn't seem to mind.

** And used between Chuck and, of all people, General Beckman in "Chuck vs. the Santa Suit". Afterwards they agree, "We will never speak of this again."

** And again in the third season opener.

{{quote| '''Hardison:''' You know, I like it when we do this pretending to kiss thing.<br />

* In the mini-series ''[[A Man Called Intrepid]]'' a man-female spy team supposedly disappear into an office for a little nookie, but actually to rifle through the files. When the guard becomes suspicious, the woman starts to fake moans of passion, whereupon he just smirks and goes back to his post. Note: this was based on a real life [[WW 2]] incident where a couple were breaking into an embassy safe while supposedly making love -- in that case the woman stepped naked into the guard's flashlight beam, whereupon the embarressed guard quickly left.

* ''[[Babylon 5]]''. Captain Sheridan is being hit on by a [[Honey Trap|beautiful naked Political Officer]]. He looks like he's going to refuse her advances when Ivanova (who's up to something he really doesn't want anyone to find out about) teleports into his office. As she's about to turn around to see what could possibly be [[Ignore the Fanservice|distracting Sheridan from her naked body]], Sheridan grabs her for a passionate clinch, giving Ivanova the opportunity for some great [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan snarking]]. "I think you're about to go where [[Really Gets Around|everyone has gone before]]."

* In ''[[My Family]]'', Ben is spying on his wife, but notices she's about to walk by the vehicle he is watching from, he asks his son Nick to think of something. Nick pulls a [[Fake-Out Make-Out]] with ''his own father''. While it works, Ben has no response but to [[Crosses the Line Twice|return the gum that Nick was chewing]].

* ''[[Secret Army]]''. [[La Résistance]] use a fake bicycle accident to make a German officer stop his vehicle so they can jump him. After they've dragged the body off into the woods an army motorcycle-sidecar drives up, and its occupants are highly suspicious at seeing an abandoned staff car...until a man comes out of the woods wearing an unbuttoned officer's uniform, his arm around a pretty Belgian girl. The Germans whistle and catcall, then roar off on their motorcycle. As there's some UST between the two characters there's an "you can stop kissing me, they've gone" moment too.

* In the ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' episode "Duped", Pete and Myka employ this trope to avoid the suspicion of the target they are trailing. Although {{spoiler|it's not really Myka. At the end of the episode, Pete says this was how he figured out the imposter, as the real Myka would '''never''' have kissed him.}}

* Sonny of ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'' does this to Chad as part of a [[Batman Gambit]] to dump his best friend. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]... kinda...

* To preserve her cover as a call girl, Diana Barrigan (who, incidentally, is gay and has a girlfriend) jumps Neal Caffrey (who is posing as her john) when someone enters their penthouse suite in ''[[White Collar]]'' episode 2.02, "Need to Know." It turns out to be {{spoiler|Neal's friend, Mozzie. When Neal tries to resume the makeout session by pretending Mozz is one of the bad guys, Diana shuts him down}}.

** In the Season 3 finale, {{spoiler|Castle calls Beckett out on their [[UST]], including the fact that they never talked about the time they kissed. "I don't know ''what'' we are."}}

** Starburns ''tries'' to have one, but Quendra refuses.

* ''[[MacGyver]]'': Mac and his female partner pull this trick when they are caught by a motorcycle cop while scoping out the hospital they are planning to break into in "For Love or Money".

 

 

== Web Comics ==

** [[It Got Worse|It gets worse from there]], ending when {{spoiler|April accidentally murders Mike}}.

* ''[http://www.marsh-rocket.com/Pages.aspx?Pg_ID=0 Marsh Rocket]'' [http://www.marsh-rocket.com/Pages.aspx?Pg_ID=25 uses this trope] then later subverts it: somebody ''taped'' the MakeOut, and it's implied it's on the future equivalent of YouTube.

* Slightly modified in ''[[Narbonic]]'' during "Professor Madblood and the Lovelace Affair". Madblood is about to spot Helen holding Titus Misanthropie's body, so she kisses Titus to cover up the fact that he's unconscious. There was never any sexual tension between Helen and Titus, but the incident served as yet another derailment of Helen's romance with Madblood.

{{quote| "Hm. Peppermint." }}

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** The first time, Sam initiates it. The second time, Danny does. It is only slightly less awkward the second time.

* In ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' episode where Timmy lent his fairy godparents to Tootie for her birthday, he pulled this on her [["Shut Up" Kiss|to prevent her from blurting out that she had them]].

{{quote| '''Wonder Woman:''' ''(blushing)'' Sorry.<br />

'''Batman:''' ''(in his smarmiest Bruce Wayne voice)'' ''Don't'' be. }}

* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': When Hervé and Nicolas follow the gang to the Supercomputer, Odd and Aelita let them catch them kissing to explain their presence in the Factory. [[Fridge Brilliance|Since the two are pretending to be cousins]], this would give them an [[Kissing Cousins|excuse for doing so off campus]].

** And Wiggum comments how two young dock workers have found love...

** Both parodied and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in "Homer and Marge Turn a Couple Play". Homer is trying to scalp baseball tickets when he spots Wiggum and whispers to Marge, "Pretend we're in love," then kisses her.

** In the episode "Rome-old and Juli-eh", Homer and Patty (disguised as Selma) do this to try and break up Selma and Grampa. They both have to think of others (Marge in Homer's case, Mrs. Krabappel in Patty's) while proceeding.

** In the episode "Saving Private Brian", they kiss to get discharged from the army. It doesn't work.

{{quote| '''Gay Soldier:''' Any room for one more?<br />

** And in "Hand in Hand," Kendall initiates another kiss with Kick (while each wears a gender-swapped disguise) to avoid getting caught glued together by Kendall's boyfriend Renaldo. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Kick]] the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|BST]] up another notch...

* Variation: in one of the ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movies Shaggy and Scooby disguise themselves as a couple to justify being in the park in the middle of the night, and pretend to make out so that no one will be able to see that Scooby is, well, a ''dog''.

* ''[[The Looney Tunes Show]]'': Lola does this Bugs when she is tailing Daffy in "Double Date".